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Since 1843, Miss Porter's School has partnered tradition with innovation to provide a superior education to young women. Miss Porter's School advocates intellectual curiosity, champions personal excellence, and prioritizes the relationships between students, faculty, and Ancients. Our community of scholars, artists, athletes, and friends flourishes within an environment of mutual respect, understanding, and encouragement. Miss Porter's School educates young women to become informed, bold, resourceful, and ethical global citizens. We expect our graduates to shape a changing world. In keeping with our founder's vision, Miss Porter's School joins tradition with innovation to provide an exemplary education to young women. Generation after generation, our leadership is defined by our ability to articulate how young women think, how young women learn, and why gender matters. Within our legacy lies our future. Miss Porter's School is committed to promoting environmentally sustainable practices. To that end, community members are expected to reduce their natural resource consumption through waste reduction, energy conservation, recycling, and sustainable purchasing practices. The best way to ensure the earth's optimal treatment is to educate tomorrow's leaders to be enthusiastic champions of environmental initiatives. As such, Porter's has been a charter member of The Green Schools Alliance since signing the Green Schools Climate Commitment in 2008. Through this pledge to reduce carbon emissions, the school has committed to benchmarking its carbon footprint and to reduce its environmental impact over time. Our campus provides a beautiful classroom to champion green living, and we believe environmental responsibility is in keeping with our mission, "Miss Porter's School educates young women to become informed, bold, resourceful and ethical global citizens. We expect our graduates to shape a changing world." Miss Porter's School is different — historically, intentionally, and successfully. We have been different, different, and different from any school, coed, or single-gender than most people have ever experienced. Our proven ability to develop strong female leaders has been replicated decade after decade with unquestionable outcomes. Miss Porter's School is preparing students to excel in college and beyond to seek challenges and break gender barriers to learn to innovate and create and understand what it means to be a leader. Our graduates are expected to shape a changing world, and Miss Porter's School provides them with tools to do so. Athletics are a fundamental part of the overall educational experience at Miss Porter's School. The athletic program strives to teach students physical and mental skills, self-discipline, and sportsmanship while motivating athletes to strive for excellence. We believe the value of participation is lifelong and that the team experience builds foundational skills of leadership, teamwork, competition, commitment, integrity, and achievement. Athletics at Porter's are competitive and require a level of commitment above and beyond other after school activities. At the varsity level, in particular, the most capable and committed athletes constitute teams. In doing so, these teams aim to refine athletic skills to compete at an advanced level and excel in competitions. All athletes are expected to promote and demonstrate respect, resilience, courage, patience, and commitment to their teammates and adults. View full school